1973 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

1973 NCAA Men's Division I
Basketball Tournament

Teams

Finals site

St. Louis Arena
St. Louis, Missouri

Champions

UCLA (9th title, 9th title game,
10th Final Four)

Runner-up

Memphis State (1st title game,
1st Final Four)

Semifinalists

Indiana (3rd Final Four)
Providence (1st Final Four)

Winning coach

John Wooden (9th title)

MOP

Bill Walton UCLA

Attendance

163,160

Top scorer

Ernie DiGregorio Providence
(128 points)

NCAA Men's Division I Tournaments
«1972	1974»

The 1973 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament involved 25 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of men's NCAA University Division (the predecessor to today's Division I, which would be created later in 1973) college basketball. It began on March 10, 1973, and ended with the championship game on March 26 in St. Louis, Missouri. A total of 29 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game. This was the first year that the championship game was held on a Monday night, after the semifinals on Saturday. It has remained that way ever since. Previously the championship game was on Saturday with the semi finals on either Thursday or Friday.

UCLA, coached by John Wooden, won the national title with an 87–66 victory in the final game over Memphis State, coached by Gene Bartow. This gave UCLA their 7th consecutive title. Bill Walton of UCLA was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.

Tournament notes

The UCLA - Memphis State championship game made USA Today's list of the greatest NCAA tournament games of all time at #18.^[1] Bill Walton set a championship game record, hitting 21 of 22 shots and scoring 44 points.

Trivia: Indiana had a home floor advantage. Bobby Knight did not like the floor, so he had the floor shipped in from Indiana and installed in the St. Louis Arena.

Locations

Region	Site	Other Locations
East	Charlotte, North Carolina	Jamaica, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Williamsburg, Virginia
Mideast	Nashville, Tennessee	Dayton, Ohio
Midwest	Houston, Texas	Wichita, Kansas
West	Los Angeles, California	Logan, Utah
Finals	St. Louis, Missouri

Teams

Region	Seed	Team	Coach	Finished	Final Opponent	Score
East
East	n/a	Furman	Joe Williams	First round	Syracuse	L 83-82
East	n/a	Maryland	Lefty Driesell	Regional Runner-up	Providence	L 103-89
East	n/a	Penn	Chuck Daly	Regional Fourth Place	Syracuse	L 69-68
East	n/a	Providence	Dave Gavitt	Fourth Place	Indiana	L 97-79
East	n/a	St. John's	Frank Mulzoff	First round	Penn	L 62-61
East	n/a	Saint Joseph's	Jack McKinney	First round	Providence	L 89-76
East	n/a	Syracuse	Roy Danforth	Regional Third Place	Penn	W 69-68
Mideast
Mideast	n/a	Austin Peay	Lake Kelly	Regional Fourth Place	Marquette	L 88-73
Mideast	n/a	Indiana	Bob Knight	Third Place	Providence	W 97-79
Mideast	n/a	Jacksonville	Tom Wasdin	First round	Austin Peay	L 77-75
Mideast	n/a	Kentucky	Joe B. Hall	Regional Runner-up	Indiana	L 72-65
Mideast	n/a	Marquette	Al McGuire	Regional Third Place	Austin Peay	W 88-73
Mideast	n/a	Miami, Ohio	Darrell Hedric	First round	Marquette	L 77-62
Midwest
Midwest	n/a	Houston	Guy Lewis	First round	Southwestern Louisiana	L 102-89
Midwest	n/a	Kansas State	Jack Hartman	Regional Runner-up	Memphis State	L 92-72
Midwest	n/a	Southwestern Louisiana (Vacated)	Beryl Shipley	Regional Fourth Place	South Carolina	L 90-85
Midwest	n/a	Memphis State	Gene Bartow	Runner Up	UCLA	L 87-66
Midwest	n/a	South Carolina	Frank McGuire	Regional Third Place	Southwestern Louisiana	W 90-85
Midwest	n/a	Texas Tech	Gerald Myers	First round	South Carolina	L 78-70
West
West	n/a	Arizona State	Ned Wulk	Regional Fourth Place	Long Beach State	L 84-80
West	n/a	Long Beach State	Jerry Tarkanian	Regional Third Place	Arizona State	W 84-80
West	n/a	Oklahoma City	Abe Lemons	First round	Arizona State	L 103-78
West	n/a	San Francisco	Bob Gaillard	Regional Runner-up	UCLA	L 54-39
West	n/a	UCLA	John Wooden	Champion	Memphis State	W 87-66
West	n/a	Weber State	Gene Visscher	First round	Long Beach State	L 88-75

Bracket

* – Denotes overtime period

East region

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals


				Maryland	91

				Syracuse	75
	Syracuse	83

	Furman	82
							Maryland	89
							Providence	103
	Pennsylvania	62
	St. John's	61
				Pennsylvania	65

				Providence	87
	Providence	89

	St. Joseph's	76

Midwest region

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals


				Memphis State	90

				South Carolina	76
	South Carolina	78

	Texas Tech	70
							Memphis State	92
							Kansas State	72


				Kansas State	66

				Southwest Louisiana	63
	Southwest Louisiana	102

	Houston	89

Mideast region

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Finals

Indiana

Marquette

Marquette

Miami-OH

Indiana

Kentucky

Kentucky

106

Austin Peay

100*

Austin Peay

Jacksonville

West region

Quarterfinals			Semifinals			Finals


				UCLA	98

				Arizona State	81
	Arizona State	103

	Oklahoma City	78
							UCLA	54
							San Francisco	39


				San Francisco	77

				Long Beach State	67
	Long Beach State	88

	Weber State	75

Final Four

UCLA won its seventh consecutive championship

National Semifinals			National Championship Game

E	Providence	85
MW	Memphis State	98
			MW	Memphis State	66
			W	UCLA	87
ME	Indiana	59
W	UCLA	70	National Third Place Game

			ME	Indiana	97
			E	Providence	79

Aftermath

The 1973 NC State Wolfpack team averaged 93 ppg, led the nation in win margin (21.8 ppg), and posted a 27–0 record, but was ineligible for postseason play because of NCAA probation. David Thompson, a two-time national Player of the Year, and All-American Tom Burleson, led NC State to a 30–1 record the following season, losing only to seven-time defending champion UCLA. The Wolfpack avenged its only loss during the two-year period by defeating UCLA in the 1974 Final Four and winning the title.

Gene Bartow, the Memphis State coach, would be John Wooden's successor at UCLA after the 1974-1975 season.

References

↑ Mike Douchant - Greatest 63 games in NCAA Tournament history. The Sports Xchange, published in USA Today, March 25, 2002

NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship

Tournaments	1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Structure	Selection process Opening Round Elite Eight Final Four National Championship Game

Venues	Venues

Champions & awards	Champions Most Outstanding Player

Media & culture	Bracketology Broadcasting Tournament Final Four March Madness pools "One Shining Moment"

Records & statistics	All-time team records Bids by school Bids by school and conference Consecutive appearances Final Four appearances by school Final Four participants Final Four appearances by coach Upsets

UCLA Bruins Men's Basketball 1972–73 NCAA Champions

22 Tommy Curtis 25 Pete Trgovich 31 Swen Nater 32 Bill Walton (MOP) 34 Dave Meyers 35 Ralph Drollinger 43 Greg Lee 52 Keith Wilkes 53 Larry Hollyfield 54 Larry Farmer Head Coach John Wooden Assistant Coaches Gary Cunningham Frank Arnold

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, March 31, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.